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# Computational Linguistics 1996 — papers

The works of Computational Linguistics published in 1996 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 4 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**52** works that year](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1996/#works) · [**7,113** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1996/#works)

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berger-1996-maximum-entropy-approach-natural-language/)**Adam L. Berger, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra · 🏆 ACL 2021 Test-of-Time Award (25 year)*our summary*
2. **[Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carletta-1996-assessing-agreement-classification-tasks-kappa/)**Jean Carletta · 🏆 ACL 2021 Test-of-Time Award (25 year)*our summary*

## All works of the year (52)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Chart Re-estimation Algorithm for a Probabilistic Recursive Transition Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3007/)**Young S. Han, Key-Sun Choi
2. **[A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berger-1996-maximum-entropy-approach-natural-language/)**Adam L. Berger, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra · 🏆 ACL 2021 Test-of-Time Award (25 year)*our summary*
3. **[A Statistically Emergent Approach for Language Processing: Application to Modeling Context Effects in Ambiguous Chinese Word Boundary Perception ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4004/)**Kok-Wee Gan, Martha Palmer, Kim-Teng Lua
4. **[A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1996-stochastic-finite-state-word-segmentation/)**Richard W. Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale et al.*our summary*
5. **[Advertisements ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-1011/)**
6. **[Advertisements ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-2012/)**
7. **[Advertisements ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3015/)**
8. **[Advertisements ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4014/)**
9. **[Ambiguity-preserving Generation with LFG- and PATR-style Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4005/)**Jurgen Wedekind, Ronald M. Kaplan
10. **[An Algorithm to Align Words for Historical Comparison ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4002/)**Michael A. Covington
11. **[Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carletta-1996-assessing-agreement-classification-tasks-kappa/)**Jean Carletta · 🏆 ACL 2021 Test-of-Time Award (25 year)*our summary*
12. **[Author Index: Volume 22 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4012/)**
13. **[Book Reviews: A Connectionist Language Generator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3010/)**George Berg
14. **[Book Reviews: Analogical Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4008/)**Jean-Pierre Corriveau
15. **[Book Reviews: Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3012/)**Anita Cremers
16. **[Book Reviews: Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3009/)**Archibald Michiels
17. **[Book Reviews: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and German in Head-driven Phrase-structure Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-1005/)**Jean-Pierre Koenig
18. **[Book Reviews: Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-4007/)**Chris Bowerman
19. **[Book Reviews: Japanese Sentence Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-1008/)**Patrick Sturt
20. **[Book Reviews: Logic and Lexicon ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-1007/)**Massimo Poesio
21. **[Book Reviews: Machine Translation and the Lexicon ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-2007/)**Inderjeet Mani
22. **[Book Reviews: Natural Language Processing for Prolog Programmers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-1006/)**Ken Barker, Stan Szpakowicz
23. **[Book Reviews: Representing Time in Natural Language: The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-2008/)**Rebecca J. Passonneau
24. **[Book Reviews: Speakers, Listeners, and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3011/)**Susan McRoy
25. **[Book Reviews: Spoken Natural Language Dialogue Systems: A Practical Approach ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J96-3008/)**David R. Traum

[See all 52 papers in Computational Linguistics 1996 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1996/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berger-1996-maximum-entropy-approach-natural-language/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Adam L. Berger, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra*1996 · 3,638 citations*
2. **[Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carletta-1996-assessing-agreement-classification-tasks-kappa/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Jean Carletta*1996 · 2,463 citations*
3. **[Translating Collocations for Bilingual Lexicons: A Statistical Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smadja-1996-translating-collocations-bilingual-lexicons-statistical/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Frank Smadja, Kathleen R. McKeown, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou*1996 · 599 citations*
4. **[A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1996-stochastic-finite-state-word-segmentation/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Richard W. Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, et al.*1996 · 413 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Stephen A. Della Pietra**1 work here · 3,638 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-a-della-pietra/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vincent J. Della Pietra**1 work here · 3,638 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-j-della-pietra/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jean Carletta**1 work here · 2,463 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-carletta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Frank Smadja**1 work here · 599 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frank-smadja/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathleen McKeown**1 work here · 599 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathleen-mckeown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou**1 work here · 599 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vasileios-hatzivassiloglou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Richard Sproat**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/) · [🧑‍🔬**William A. Gale**1 work here · 413 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-a-gale/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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